Hi Everyone. I have been a VERY inactive lurker for a while and just had to rejoin under a new user name. I know this is an older thread but I thought it would be a good way to say hello and glad to be here. I am hoping to attend the January meeting and the December 14th IMAX...No costume yet, but working on an X-Wing pilot and a smuggler. I really look forward to meeting everyone and having fun.

Films: The Long Kiss Goodnight, The Usual Suspects, The Matrix, MIB, The Silence of the Lambs, X-Men.

Music: I have very eclectic taste and will listen to anything that sounds good to me personally.

Cartoon: Scooby-Doo, Anything Warner Brothers.

Book: The Stand and It-Stephen King (the TV movie adaptations were AWFUL, the books are wonderful), and the entire X-Wing Series (LOVE those pilots) .

TV: The X-Files, Alias, 24.

Food: Pizzapapalis Spinach Chicago-Style pizza.

Cheering up: Talk to my kids, play with my dog (he never has a bad day), RPing.

Regret: Starting nursing school at 37 instead of 10 years ago when I should have.

Want to be: A kick-ass X-Wing Pilot. ANH came out when I was 12 and I wanted to be Luke Skywalker or Han Solo sooooooo badly or if who cares if I was a girl.

Job: Forensic Technician for Detroit P.D. In nursing school and hoping to work as a forensic nurse examiner.

Dream Job: Being involved in Star Wars production in any way, shape or form. Film production has fascinated me since seeing ANH for the first time. My former DPD partner will be starting film school this fall and I am sick with envy.

Family: My hubby of 18 years because he is my best friend and my wonderful son and daughter. They are the most awesome people.
I am proud to be their mom.

Where I would live: Naboo Lake Country...What a spectacularly beautiful place.

Before I die: See my kids grow into the exceptional adults they will become, travel to all the places I want to see, get my private pilots license.

I just joined you fine people a week or so ago and I've posted a few times now, and I'm really enjoying myself and hope to get to know you all better (and maybe join you for some meetings - IF I can can get the days off!)

Favorite film(s)(besides SW) ? All the Kevin Smith movies (What SW fan isn't a Kevin Smith fan?)
Black Hawk Down
Leon (AKA The Professional)
Ghost World
The Bourne Identity
Enemy at the Gates
The Doors
and many many more...

Well, I don't know how you all feel about strangers posting, but when Jayna turned me on to your 'Rules and Regs' for the Daytona Beachtroopers, I really liked a lot of the topics around here and you people are fantastic. So, though I am thousands of miles away down here in sunny and always hot Florida, I thought I'd just drop in!

Hobbies ? reading, 3D graphics, karate, rocket building/blowing stuff up, working on the Falcon (my 78 Chevy Blazer), contemplating the Force, soaking up as much medieval and Roman history and religion as I can, play sax (learning piano very slowly), construction, prop building.

Favorite song(s) ? Oooo, too many to choose from, but right now it would have to be 'Can't Stop' by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. And the video is awesome! I also have to give a nod to Havendance, the first song I played in High School. Very very cool song if you can find it.

Favorite Book (up to now) ? Almost every SW novel (yes, I am a dork and have read them all, but don't speak of Children of the Jedi or Darksaber in my presence), The entire Ender series, and the Harry Potter series, Solaris, A Canticle for Leibowitz, all NINE parts of the Lord of the Rings.

How do you cheer yourself up, when you're feelin' down? ? Put on some loud music and either hit my punching bag or dance around the apartment, then put on something soothing and meditate.

What do you most regret doing? ? I regret nothing. Everything happens for a reason and I just let the Force guide me.

If you could be anyone (alive or dead or fictional): Corran Horn. X-Wing pilot, Jedi, and my role model since I read the X-Wing series. To me he has his moral compass straight and knows when to take action and get the job done. From astrology.com "When you argue, you leave nothing unsaid, regardless of the consequences of your words. On the other hand, when others fight, you are always called upon as the mediator. You have a strong sense of right and wrong, and are a natural peacemaker." Sounds like a Horn to me!

What do you do for a living? Anything that pays.

What's your dream job? ? Fly X-Wings, but the closest I'll come to that is the full scale mockup I want to build when I get a house. I really want to work for the Jet Propulsion Lab and discover a way to fly faster than light, then be the first person to do it. If I can't do that, then I want to be an astronaut that does free-lance CG on the side, maybe find a nice band that needs a bari-sax player.

Do you have anyone in your family, who you're really close to? If so, who and why

Well if I ever feel the pull to visit Detroit (I'd love to tour some of the auto factories) I may have to meet some of you people in person! I do plan to be at C3, though that's a couple years down the road.

All you have to do to become an official member is come to a meeting and join in with the discussion and fun! We will ask you to read the charter and sign the agreement form. You can find that and lots more information about our group by clicking on the links across the top of the R2 Boards.

Our next meeting is this Saturday night at 6PM at the Borders in Novi.

Favourite film(s)(besides SW) ? Princess Bride, Real Genius, HBO Mini series From the Eart to the Moon (okay it's like more than one movie), Lord of the Rings: Fellowship and 2 towers, gladiator, more and more...

Favourite musical artist(s) or group(s) - Stevie Ray Vaughn, Ashley MacIsaac, Barenaked Ladies (right now any way. changes with mood. I know it is a thing for cattle and women)

Favourite song(s) ? If I had a million dollars - BNL (I would by you a house...)

Favourite cartoon as a child (and now hehe..) Transor Z, G.I. Joe, The Amzing Spider Man, X-Men. Now would have to be Captian SImian and the SPace monkeys not that it is still airing.

Favourite Book (up to now) ? best SW was X-Wing series, Factual Book - Chaos by James Gliec, Other just Authors... THe Grand Master of all Isaac Asimov, Heinline, Ben Bova, Greg Bear

How do you cheer yourself up, when you're feelin' down? ? Music and reading and the occcasional PS 2 game

What do you most regret doing? ? Giving up on dreams and taking ten years to ge tthem back

If you could be anyone (alive or dead or fictional) One of the countless engineers who built the space craft for the appolo program. Come on they made the machines that took men to the moon.

What do you do for a living? RIght now I am a full time student.

What's your dream job? ? Owning a company that specializes in Rocket and space craft propulsion research. Making it affordable for everyone and making the needed advances to get us to colonize the solar system.

Do you have anyone in your family, who you're really close to? If so, who and why? ? only my wife and friends and my Dad cause he and I saw so little of each other as I grew up.

If you could live in the Star Wars galaxy for a day, what planet would you go to and why? ? Planet schmanet. Who the heck wants to be tied down to one measly world? I vote for being tied down to my starship and a full tank of fuel and a really good nav computer.

What things do you want to achieve in life b4 you die? (name 3) ? Once I just want to see earth from orbit with my own eyes. Just once.

WHAT PLANET AND WHY: Tatooine...I love the desert plus I'd like to see where Luke lived

DO IN LIFE B4 I DIE: Finish school(which I am)...See my daughter becoming a beautiful, intelligent woman...Do some type of art for a movie (@ILM would be nice) where my name is in the credits ...Become a spiritual evolved person